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Star Wars is—or should be—a religious franchise. The Jedi are a monastic order trained in contemplating and…

It has taken almost thirty years for Martin Scorsese to film Silence, Shūsaku Endō’s novel about Catholic…

Communication between different ideological worlds has never been more necessary and never seemed more impossible. This is…

Shūsaku Endō’s Silence is now widely regarded as a modern classic. The initial reaction of Japanese Catholics,…

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for…

Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth-century Japan, tells the…

When did I first become aware of Jesus Christ? Every idea has its own history. What was…

Ryszard Legutko observes in The Demon in Democracy that the cultured despisers of religion will not rest…

Two oz. scotch (cheap stuff will do just fine). 1 oz. tawny port. A handful of namkeen.…

I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…

On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a score of Catholic academics and pastors—of whom I am…

Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the United…

Anyone who has stumbled across a long-forgotten diary will understand the embarrassment a journalist feels when he…

Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as…

Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that…